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0>e  )VIan 
with  the  F)oe  #• 

Written  after  seeing  Millet’s 
World-Famous  Painting . 

By  edwirt  jVIarkham 


Originally  published  in  "  The  San 
Francisco  Examiner"  ^January  the 
fifteenth  Eighteen  hundred  and 

ninety-nine,  Now  first  issued  in 
book  form,  March  thirtieth.  Eighteen 
hundred  and  ninety-nine, 

San  Francisco,  California  ^  Published 
by  A.  M.  Robertson. 


Copyright,  1899, 
By  Edwin  Markham 


Written  after  seeing-  Millet’s 
World-Famous  Painting. 


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Che  )VIan  with  the  F)oe 


By  Bdwin  JMarkbam 

God  made  man  in  His  own  image, 

in  the  image  of  God  made  He  him. — Genesis. 

Bowed  by  the  weight  of  centuries  he  leans 

Clpon  his  hoe  and  gazes  on  the  ground, 
vj  Che  emptiness  of  ages  in  his  face, 

Hnd  on  his  back  the  burden  of  the  world. 

Sd  bo  made  him  dead  to  rapture  and  des¬ 
pair, 

H  thing  that  grieves  not  and  that  never 
hopes, 

'  Stolid  and  stunned,  a  brother  to  the  ox  ? 

*£Hho  loosened  and  let  down  this  brutal 
Jaw? 

<Ubose  was  the  hand  that  slanted  back 
this  brow? 

Cdhose  breath  blew  out  the  light  within 
this  brain  ? 


Xs  this  the  Ching  the  Lord  6od  made  and 
gave 

'Co  have  dominion  over  sea  and  land; 

Co  trace  the  stars  and  search  the  heavens 
for  power; 

Co  feel  the  passion  of  Bternity? 

Xs  this  the  Dream  F)e  dreamed  who  shaped 
the  suns 

Hnd  pillared  the  blue  firmament  with 
light  ? 

Down  all  the  stretch  of  Dell  to  its  last 
gulf 

Cberc  is  no  shape  more  terrible  than  this— 

]YIore  tongued  with  censure  of  the  world's 
blind  greed — 

JVIore  filled  with  signs  and  portents  for 
the  soul — 

JVIore  fraught  with  menace  to  the  universe. 


What  gulfs  between  him'  and  the  sera¬ 
phim! 

Slave  of  the  wheel  of  labor,  what  to  him 

Hre  plato  and  the  swing  of  Pleiades? 

What  the  long  reaches  of  the  peaks  of 
song, 

Che  rift  of  dawn,  the  reddening  of  the 
rose? 

Chrough  this  dread  shape  the  suffering 
ages  look; 

Time's  tragedy  is  in  that  aching  stoop; 

Chrough  this  dread  shape  humanity  be¬ 
trayed, 

plundered,  profaned  and  disinherited, 

Cries  protest  to  the  fudges  of  the  World, 

H  protest  that  is  also  prophecy. 


O  masters,  lords  and  rulers  in  all  lands, 

Xs  this  the  handiwork  you  give  to  God, 

Oris  monstrous  thing  distorted  and  soul- 
quenched  ? 

F)ow  will  you  ever  straighten  up  this 
shape ; 

Couch  it  again  with  immortality; 

Give  back  the  upward  looking  and  the 
light ; 

Rebuild  in  it  the  music  and  the  dream; 

jVIake  right  the  immemorial  infamies, 

perfidious  wrongs,  immedicable  woes? 


O  masters,  lords  and  rulers  in  all  lands, 

F>ow  will  the  -future  reckon  with  this  ]VIan  ? 

F>ow  answer  his  brute  question  in  that 
hour 

*&hen  whirlwinds  of  rebellion  shake  the 
world  ? 

how  will  it  be  with  kingdoms  and  with 
kings— 

CCUth  those  who  shaped  him  to  the  thing 
he  is — 

{{then  this  dumb  terror  shall  reply  to  God, 

Hfter  the  silence  of  the  centuries? 


1 

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